On Feb 1, 2005, at 19:04, Chris Barker wrote:
See my previous message about building matplotlib on OS-X. Now that I've done that, I need to give it to some of my coworkers that don't have the dev tools installed, and are aghast at the idea of typing ./configure; make, make install.
So, how do I make a binary distro? I know I can get distutils to do it, but it won't included the needed extra libs:
freetype libpng zlib
zlib ships with OS X
It seems I have three options:
1) Just give them a tarball of the compiled libs, ready to be dropped into /usr/local (I don't like that option, what If I clobber something?)
2) Somehow put the libs inside the matplotlib distro
That's possible
3) Statically link those libs into the matplotlib extensions
But this is better
I have no idea how to do 2 or 3, but could probably figure it out.
This is (3)
Make sure you don't have libpng.dylib or libfreetype.dylib sitting around on your link paths...
Build them like this: ./configure --disable-shared --enable static
Make sure you only have libpng.a and libfreetype.a on your link paths. It will link statically.
What do folks suggest? Any pointers?
After you've linked matplotlib statically, use bdist_mpkg from py2app to make a redistributable .pkg installer for it. After installing py2app, you should have a tool in /usr/local/bin called "bdist_mpkg" that will Just Do It without any setup.py modifications to the target lib... so go into the matplotlib directory, type bdist_mpkg, and cross your fingers that a dist/matplotlib-xx.pkg will appear. If you have any problems beyond that, let me know.
-bob
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